The Family Law Amendment Act 2024, set to come into effect from 10 June 2025, is changing the way judges must handle the division of property in cases where there has been family violence. Yet, while the media have often framed the changes in terms of making a person...
A new report has revealed that the Australian child support system isn't working for single mothers - and it actually supports and perpetrates financial abuse. Opening the black box of child support: Shining a light on how financial abuse is perpetrated (Kay Cook,...
Content warning: this article contains discussion of child sexual abuse. The number of reports of child-on-child sexual abuse - that is, abuse perpetrated on a child by another child - has now overtaken the number of reports of adult-child sexual abuse, according to a...
On Friday, CSMC spoke to the Standing Committee on Social Policy and Legal Affairs' inquiry into family violence orders. The Federal Government hearings were established to investigate how to provide better access for victim-survivors in the family law system, Family...